Does PHP have anything like e4x?

[tibberous]

Lets say this is my xml:

 

$xml = "<root><people><person><name>bob</name></person><person><name>trent</name></person></people></root>";

 

I want to be able to get $root->people as an array, then loop through $root->people[$i] and print out their names. Actionscript makes this remarkably easy with E4X, does PHP have something similar?

 

I hate the xml_parser_create way of doing things - but using preg_match_all just feels like a hack.

[Psycho]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php

[tibberous]

Yeah - that's what I'm looking for, even though it either doesn't support full XML or is buggy. It won't read my XML if I leave the SOAP namespaced elements around it, even though FF and IE read the xml file as valid. I was able to get it to work by preg_matching one of the more-inner tags =/

[salathe]

it either doesn't support full XML or is buggy

 

No, it seems you just haven't fully read the documentation.  To access namespaced items, use the children method on an element.